Meet the alleged fiendish Afghani drug lord who bragged about waging jihad on America by poisoning New York’s streets with heroin.

Haji Baz Mohammad, 47, used his Afghanistan poppy fields for his sickening plot against the city, boasting to cohorts “that selling heroin in the United States was a jihad because they were taking the Americans’ money, and the heroin was killing them,” a stunning, newly unsealed indictment reveals.

But Mohammad “now faces what all drug kingpins fear the most – justice in a court in the United States, delivered by an American jury on the very streets of New York that he’d sought to poison,” said Karen Tandy, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Mohammad was busted in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in January and finally extradited Friday to Manhattan to face federal charges filed here in 2003.

He became the first person to be extradited from Afghanistan to the United States on federal charges, authorities crowed.

But the steely-eyed suspect yesterday remained unbowed as he appeared before a Manhattan federal court judge for his arraignment.

“I am innocent,” Mohammad said defiantly, dressed in the traditional tan and gray Afghan garb of a tunic and vest over pants.

Mohammad also is accused of allowing his business to be used as a Taliban cash machine, funneling funds into the terror group while flooding city streets with his killer drugs.

“His opium trade financed the Taliban, and they in turn protected his crops, his heroin labs, his drug-transportation labs and his associates,” Tandy said.

“[Mohammad] was one of the world’s most wanted, most powerful and most dangerous drug kingpins.”

The drug thug allegedly made his chilling boast of launching his drug jihad on America during a meeting with cronies in Pakistan in 1990.

He allegedly ran a widespread ring that had manufactured $25 million worth of heroin in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 1990 and funneled much of it to New York.

The ring allegedly smuggled the drugs in suitcases and clothing, even sewing heroin into dresses to be mailed to Manhattan.

In June, President Bush added Mohammad’s name to a list of the world’s most-wanted narcotics traffickers.

U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia described the suspect as one of a group of top international criminals trying to “destabilize Afghanistan’s emerging democracy, flood the Western markets with heroin and use their profits to support the Taliban and other terror groups.”

About 13 other alleged ring members also are in custody, including main U.S. distributor Bashir Ahmad Rahmany, who was busted in July.

Court papers show that over $1.4 million in heroin seized in the United States has been traced to Mohammad, who is thought to have controlled poppy fields in Afghanistan and drug labs there and in Pakistan.

In June 2004, investigators seized from the ring about 120 kilograms of chemical powder and a ledger documenting the sale of missile explosive devices, rocket shells, AK-47s and other weaponry during a raid on a gas station in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, prosecutors said.

Both Mohammad and Rahmany face up to life in prison if convicted of the charges.

Several months earlier, an international drug lord with ties to bin Laden and the Taliban also was busted for allegedly smuggling $50 million in heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan into the United States.

Bashir Noorzai – dubbed the “Pablo Escobar of Asia,” in reference to the late Colombian drug chief – was reputedly closely tied to the Taliban, which provided protection for bin Laden’s operations in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11 attacks.